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Quick! Destroy them all; pay heed to the documentary 'Planet of the Apes'.

Well this is only shocking to people who try to relegate the inteligence of animals, just so that they can rationalize human superiority on this planet. It also makes it a lot easier to accept animal abuse for entertainment or fashion if you think they're incapable of feeling pain, or having desires/traditions.

I will be the first to welcome our Planet of The Apes overlords

Give them all jobs at apple stores.

Apes are the best. Too bad humanity is hell bent on driving them to extinction.

Yes, but can they be taught to fly airplanes? That is the real question.

Elephants are smarter than apes.

Here's a NOVA program about this topic: http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/documentaries/N ...

At the end of the video they ask, "Whats holding them back?" The answer is time.

Great. And how long before these super-intelligent apes go wild and start throwing barrels at our plumbers? Have we learned NOTHING from the 80s!?

"Apes display rudimentary traditions which could be interpreted as culture but are they really bright enough to develop a proper culture?"

This is priceless. So in other words the only "real" culture is human culture and anything else is lesser. The human ego hard at work.

telegraph.uk is so dumb to cover a rebroadcast of a feb 19/08 program.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/apegenius/about.html

Oh, and its easy to use apes that have probably been human trained they're entire lives and say that how intelligent all apes are.

Unscientific anthropomorphism, anyone?

I for one think this is nonsense! There is no way an Ape... hang one doorbell.... brb

Looks great, can't wait.

Why would we not assume that apes are in actual fact intelligent ?

Sure, lots of apes can post to site like digg, but just read some of their posts...they're not geniuses...

Hey if one can get elected as President of the USA, they can do anything.

It's Ape Lincoln! We're all doomed. (btw did you notice Digg checks to see if you're a human when you post a comment? Guess Apes haven't mastered Captchas…yet)

Wow, great! An advertisement ... wtf

I for one welcome our new primate overlords

This is not good.

With all due respect to chimps and their intelligence but saying things like "(they) share 99 per cent of human genes" amounts to very little. Animals that are as complex as a fruit fly share about 90% of the human genome (most of it the same junk DNA all animals share). In that case the scale of similarity should be moved to the 90-100% range. In which case chimps would have a 90% similarity to humans over all other animals. Still big, but more realistic.

This might be splitting hairs but aren't chimps and humans only 98% similar when comparing DNA base pairs? Seems like even a difference of 1% makes a massive difference. The article states that humans and chimpanzees share 99% of base pairs

Get your hands off of me you damn dirty ape.

"Proper culture" - their culture has to conform to ours to be "proper"?? that's BS

i wonder how many of you that think this is so amazing eat meat. how many of you condone or buy products using animal testing? the thought of intelligence in animals isn't so shocking when you have compassion for your fellow beings.

"...they do not have control of their emotions. They are also violent, impulsive and display deadly rivalry."
not much has changed i guess...

Anyone else having trouble getting past the author's inability to string a sentence together?

I was hoping to find an ape doing something silly, like peeing in his own mouth.

We'll soon be starting a new government program "No chimp left behind"...

Wow... Shoving a stick into a tree. That's impressive. What's next, calculus ?

Apes did not vote for George W. Bush in 2004. This proves that apes are more intelligent than southern poors.

Dr. Zaius...?

saw her speak at my university, very interesting

"Ape genius: A chimp turns a handle on an experiment device (left) and a chimp examining red cups"
GENIUS!

Apes only seem like geniuses when compared to a liberal.

Oh, this is bad for the religious, please do not read and get out the creationism novel. It's only a coincidence that we share over 99% of our genes with a dirty ape !!!! Where's Adam and Eve? Chasing each other around the apple tree. Hard to believe an Evangelicals relative is an Ape. Reminds me of the movie Gettysburg when they were discussing this exact problem and one General says to the other General, "That General Robert E. Lee is not related to an Ape". He was.

why does everyone like to ignore the fact that we're all apes?

That's all well and good... but the true test of their culture is whether they'll accept Jesus Christ as their personal lord and savior. Filthy pagan savages.

It's a well known fact that humans are the THIRD most intelligent life form on the planet, just under mice and dolphins.

I wonder if one of the apes in this story goes on to become The Lawgiver.

***** if we can make a proper culture.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/apegenius/program.htm ...